Running in the prater

The Prater is to Vienna, what Central Park is to New York.

So running there is a must do !

In this case I was cycling beside a running friend but that's almost the same ;)

In addition to this beautiful tree-lined paths, there is an very old amusement park !

Bitzinger

There is nothing better than a Bitzinger's Wurst (Sausage).
I love it as an hot dog with a little bit of mustard, but you can have it like most people do here, simply cut, with mustard or/and ketchup and/or curry.

And don't hesitate to taste the  famous austrian Käsekrainer - with cheese inside !

Swimming in the Donau

One thing you can't imagine to do in Lyon is bathing in the Rhône or the Saône - the same in the Seine in Paris. I even never put a toe in the north sea in the Netherlands and in Belgium.

But in Vienna, you can actually bath in the danube; in the Old Danube, but also on both side of the Danube Island and  You have actually more than 42 km of beaches.

So today I cooled down in the Kaiserswasser, 15 mn away from Praterstern with bicycle, just behind the UN building (white building from the left till the middle of the above picture). The water was not really clear but definitely clean. Waterplants tickled our feet, but apparently there is boat coming regularly to cut them out. There were people but we could sit in the shadow.

Swimming in the Danube, that could have been on my to-do list

[Edit - August, the 9th] Today I bath in the Danube, I mean not like above on a lake-like part of the Danube, but here really in the stream. It was incredible! Sweet! Perfect temperature!

Ok you don't have an horizon like in the sea, but the wave are just going in one direction and you really feel that if you let yourself go, you can swim till Bratislava.

I'll do it again for sure!